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Re: Merging wealth index with individual file [message #8405 is a reply to message #8394] Fri, 23 October 2015 18:01 Go to previous message
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From a previous post:

http://userforum.dhsprogram.com/index.php?t=msg&th=2075& amp;goto=4224&S=851fe28e75716e4e1e9654ca24639320#msg_422 4

*begin using the individual recode (I used child, but should still work)
use child.dta

*generate the variable that corresponds to the wealth data
gen whhid = substr(caseid, 1, 12)

*merge
merge m:1 whhid using wealth.dta
 
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